Archive for May, 2007
Tinkering, categorically, is allowed
By admin at 30 May, 2007, 4:20 am
In 2004, I was engaged to fix up an advertising business. They had plenty of revenue, but at the end of the financial year, the cupboard was always bare. Coming in wearing a general manager’s hat, I had a whole series of questions to ask, including “why are we using these spreadsheets to tell us [...]
Read More >>Chuck your Monitor
By admin at 28 May, 2007, 11:37 pm
Here’s a cool piece of software that can save you money. Most small office networks have a file server. Now you can buy a monitor for that computer that will rarely get turned on, or you can use remote control software to operate the computer, without having to have a monitor or waste time moving [...]
Read More >>Last will and testament.exe
By brendan at 23 May, 2007, 4:22 am
My wife and I are at the lawyers, going through our will. The previous lawyer had made a number of mistakes, and then promptly left the firm, so it is up to the principal to fix our issues. The Maserati in his carport tells me this guy is either good at his job or good [...]
Read More >>Open Sauce
By brendan at 16 May, 2007, 4:44 am
When I moved out of home I basically lived on pies, pizzas and takeaways. At the end of the first year, a friend of mine, Stewart, moved in and pointed out that he suspected that the black slime at the bottom of a cupboard had started life as a potato. I wanted to argue against [...]
Read More >>How I learnt to love bad customers
By brendan at 9 May, 2007, 4:51 am
I think that my journey to love bad customers started with Warren. He was making a reasonable living out of multi-level marketing and wanted to embrace the internet. Highly enthusiastic, Warren would never plan because planning and paperwork were beneath him. Instead, everything occurred at the last minute and had to be the latest technology [...]
Read More >>$1.4 Billion
By brendan at 2 May, 2007, 4:53 am
Thanks for the $1.4 billion industry statement John. However I’d be shocked if it had any impact. One of the problems in Australia is that we love strategies, but not execution –– the details are seen to be beneath us. We also misuse the word ‘strategy’ endlessly. “My strategy will be to grab a coffee [...]
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